John Dowd is a former federal prosecutor who was asked in 1989 to investigate allegations that Pete Rose had placed bets on baseball games. In his role as Special Counsel to the Commissioner, A. Bartlett Giamatti, he produced the Dowd Report, which detailed Rose’s betting on baseball games in the 1980s, including teams Rose was managing at the time. The report led to Rose’s lifetime ban in August 1989.

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